Emerson College Top Questions

Emerson only provides housing for your first to years. After that you're on your own, which can be a good thing and a bad thing. Also Emerson's not into sports, which sucks.

One experience I will always remember is my time at the Castle. The school owns and operates a castle where 80 students study abroad at for a semester. I recently got back and it is one of the most exciting time in my life. We study only 4 days a week and then we get time to travel. I visited 12 countries in that time, an amount that most people my age have not down in their lifetime. This was a major selling point when I came to Emerson and it was an amazing experience that I highly recommend to people.

It's a small school with working faculty members that check up on you and integral to your education. Even the BFA majors learn a little bit about everything because (and this is actually in the constitution of every student group) you have to include every major in your student organization. The fact of the matter is, everyone at this college needs everyone else. The marketing kids need a product, the writers need the performers, the performers need tickets to be sold. By the time you get out of here, you'll know how to work with all of these people.

Tuition-it is an expensive school and although there are many opportunities, Emerson puts forth an image that it does not always live up to.

If your looking to go into media production of any kind, wheter it be film, TV, radio, audio, etc.) Emerson College is second to none. The facilities including the Equipment Distribution Center (which is stocked with millions of dollars worth of equipment that as a student you can borrow for free) as well as the DiBona family studios (a $2.5 million dollar, industry standerd television studios), are far superior than other schools. The co-curricular activities such as EVVY's, ECTV, and EIV will give you more experience in media productions then you could imagine. Many alumni in Hollywood feel as if their years ahead of their competition in terms of experience thanks to Emerson College.

Emerson advertises itself as a liberal arts school but don't be fooled-- Emerson is a Communications/Art School. It doesn't really have a campus but is in the middle of the city of Boston which makes it very exciting. If you know what you want to d for the rest of your life and if that has to do with communications, and if you wanna get your hands on the real field before you graduate from college, Emerson is your best fit. However, if you want typical college experience, Emerson might not be the school for you. Politics at Emerson is a bit fucked up and is hard to deal with sometimes, but the shit you have to go through by going to huge ass schools such as your local state schools, it's pretty bearable.

The best thing about Emerson is that you can someone to collaborate with on anything you can think of, whether it's music, film, writing, a community service project- anything. The one thing I would change is the fact that Visual Media Arts majors can only have one concentration and can't double major. Emerson is a very small school. I like that there's a relatively small number of students, because it's easier to form connections and network, but you do have to be willing to venture a little further out into the city on your own, because the "campus" is tiny. I spend most of my time on campus in a dorm building. There really isn't an on-campus hangout, but there are plenty of places right off of campus, like the Common, which is just across the street. Boston isn't the biggest city ever, but unless you're from New York or LA, you'll probably find that you have plenty of options of things to do in your free time. There are several movie theatres in the area, the Aquarium, Fenway Park, tons of affordable restaurants, Newbury Street and plenty of other shopping, and some pretty good concert venues. There tends to be a lot of school pride. The Orientation Leaders are great about making incoming students enthusiastic about the school, and the few people that really aren't proud to be at Emerson are pretty much the ones not coming back Sophomore year (and that's not a lot).

The classes are amazing at Emerson and I found some amazing friends. I personally think that Emerson needs more academic classes, I miss taking Spanish as well. The size is just right for me! It's not huge and overwhelming, but I still see people that I've never see before every day. People usually have never heard of Emerson, and that is really annoying but I prefer to think of it as being in a secret club. Emerson is amazing school and more people need to know about it! Emerson has an urban campus that is very compact and I absolutely love it. When it's raining and cold outside it's never more than a 3 minute walk to class. It's also basically less than a 3 minute walk anywhere. Emerson's right down town and is surrounded by everything. Personally I don't think that people have enough Emerson pride. Everyone loves it and everyone has the sweatshirts, but no one really proclaims it enough- probably because we aren't too into sports. The experiences I'll remember the most are the one's on film shoots or with my friends, those things are always the most memorable.

One experience I will always remember from going to emerson is when my new best friends that I live next door decided to take me to New York, it was amazing.

Personally, I love the school. It's the perfect size for me, it has one of the best locations imaginable (right in the middle of boston), and the programs that the school offer all warrant exactly the type of kids I like (filmy, artsy, weirdos). Everyone I know here is the kind of person I like and I have a hard time finding someone here who I don't get along with. Visit the school, and you'll know pretty quickly whether or not you'll fit in.